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<center>All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God's secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-4-1970#p1</ref></center>
=What Is Illness?=
An illness is quite simply, always and in every case, even when doctors tell you there are germs—in every case it's a disequilibrium in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces....illnesses are falsehoods of the body… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1509/doctorsjune-and15-medicines1968#p4p12</ref>
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...any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood… it as an imperfection of the body to be got rid of as you try to get rid of vital imperfections or mental errors.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1229/septemberequality-the-29chief-1971support#p6p18</ref>
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...falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the consciousness . The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref>
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An Each illness isrepresents its own vibratory mode.Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a whole field of vibrations to be corrected..in every case itIt's a disequilibrium the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the being: a disequilibrium between various functioningsdivine Influence—the exact measure, a disequilibrium between forces… down to the atom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0908/junefebruary-158-19681967#p12p7</ref>
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Illness An epidemic is always a lapse into unconsciousness through the incapacity ''collective'' illness and comes from a ''collective'' impurity… The forms of illness vary according to sustain the movement condition of transformation..each person and his link with the whole. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0816/january8-25july-19671964#p24p3</ref>
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It's [ illness In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is] the EXACT measure agent of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measurepain, down to the atomphysical illness etc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0828/februarythe-8physical-1967consciousness#p7p25</ref>
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All disease life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a means towards some new joy particular force. Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of healththe forces.Your illnesses, depressions etc.are the repeated play of such forces. It is only when one can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and have a true life—but one can be free only by living in the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/28/occult-knowledge#p9</ref> =Why Illness Develops?=
[Based on Aphorism<135>]All disease is a means towards some new joy ==Causes of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God's secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-4-1970#p1</ref>Illness==
<center>~</center>''Q.Sweet Mother, if someone falls seriously ill, is this a purely physical phenomenon or is it a difficulty in his spiritual life?''
An epidemic A. That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a collective illness difficulty in his spiritual life. If it is somebody who is not at all engaged in yoga and comes from a collective impurity… <ref>http://incarnatewordwho lives an ordinary life in the most ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident. It depends absolutely on the person. The outer phenomena may be similar, but the inner causes are absolutely different.No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put on diseases and attempts made to group them; but in fact every person is ill in/cwm/16/8-july-1964#p3</ref>his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leads.
<center>~</center><center>~</center>We have often said that illnesses are always the result of a disturbance of equilibrium, but this disturbance can occur in completely different states of being. For the ordinary man whose consciousness is centred in the physical, outer life, it is a purely physical disturbance of equilibrium, of the functioning of the different organs. But when behind this purely superficial life, an inner life is being fashioned, the causes of illness change; they always become the expression of a disequilibrium between the different parts of the being: between the inner progress or effort and the outer resistances or conditions of one's life, one's body.
An Even from the ordinary external point of view, it has been recognised for a very long time that it is a fall in the resistance of the vitality due to immediate moral causes which is always at the origin of an illness . When one is in a normal state of equilibrium and lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a capacity of resistance, it has within it an atmosphere strong enough to resist illnesses: its most material substance emanates subtle vibrations which have the strength to resist illnesses, even diseases which are called contagious—in fact, all vibrations are contagious, but still, certain diseases are considered as especially contagious. Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in a state in which comes his organs function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not to affect him. But if for some reason or other he loses this equilibrium or is weakened by depression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties or undue fatigue, for instance, this reduces the normal resistance of the body and he is open to the disease. But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, in the ordinary course as sense that the result causes of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces disequilibrium are of a different nature and the illness usually becomes the first cause—is expression of an ordinary illness… inner difficulty which has to be overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he is ill. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p17p1,p3,p4,p5</ref>
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One [illness]brought by It's the forces hostile effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to Yoga to upset follow the movement), a more or less total bad will; an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is, the system causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is , of course, a form of inertia—it's all a hostile attackform of inertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond. These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death.That is, the disintegration of created harmony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/illnessmarch-and2-health1968#p17p38</ref>
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No two illnesses are alikeThe nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, though labels are putit will bear and more easily get rid of it.If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite..to group them; If the nervous being is not merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or excitable, then there is much fluctuation, restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being—there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in fact every person disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical—there is ill in his own wayno physical illness of the heart but there are pains and palpitations, nothing physically wrong with stomach and his way depends on what he intestines and yet there is, on his state inability to digest—nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of consciousness the body and so on—sometimes there is hysteria. These conditions are not always native to the body—they are often created by troubles in the life he leads, some disturbing illness or other reasons—but often it is due to some hereditary cause or otherwise native to the system. Women tend to get like this sometimes if there is disorder of the menstruation. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/19illness-juneand-1957health#p2p49,p50</ref>
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...health or illness is... Depression and discouragement have a choice of every minute..very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it [nervous envelope], as it were, in its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0903/16-june-15-19681929#p15p11</ref>
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All life ...the body's whole functioning is a discipline, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the play discipline—out of universal forces.revolt or incapacity or..most people...undergo the play of for any reason—if it stops following the forces.Your illnessesdiscipline, depressions etcyou fall ill. are the repeated play of such forces… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2810/occultfebruary-8-knowledge1969#p9p37</ref>
=What Illness Is Not?=<center>~</center>
==Means ...all disorders in the body and all diseases are the result of Transformation==DOUBT in the cells or a certain group of cells. They doubt the Divine's concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/may-14-1964#p4</ref> <center>~</center>
Illness must not ...the cause of disease is psychic, that is to say, subjective and the direction should be accepted as a towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means . These are ideas that have their truth also. I fully recognise the psychic law and methods and their preferability, but the ordinary run of transformation; humanity is not ready for that rule and, while it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the force of transformation especially in the vital is so, doctors and the body… their physical methods will be there.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessmorality-and-healthyoga#p4p46</ref>
==ProgressSubconscient==
You are given an illness purposely If you drink unfiltered water and think, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to make you progress? Surely take any kind of suggestion. In life it is not like that...You must never think the action of the subconscious that has the Divine has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly be larger share and it acts a very wicked Divine!..hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0503/2219-julymay-19531929#p2p18</ref>
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To make people ill in order In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital full of the seeds of habitual desires, sensations and nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to improve do with the condition of the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or perfect them is not Mother's method… repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3009/difficulties-experienced-injune-the-process-of15-descent1968#p18p6</ref>
==Virtue==<center>~</center>
...The child must be taught Out of the subconscious we bring ordinarily so much to the surface as early as possible.our waking sense mind and intelligence need for their purpose; in so bringing them up we are not aware of their nature, origin, operation and do not apprehend them in their own values but by a translation into the values of our waking human sense and intelligence.But the risings of the subconscious, its effects upon the mind and body, are mostly automatic, uncalled for and involuntary; for we have no knowledge and therefore no control of the subconscient.It is only by an experience abnormal to us, most commonly in illness or some disturbance of balance, that he does not we can become more interesting by being illdirectly aware of something in the dumb world, dumb but rather very active, of our bodily being and vitality or grow conscious of the contrary...Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign secret movements of weakness the mechanical subhuman physical and inferiorityvital mind which underlies our surface, —a consciousness which is ours but seems not ours because it is not part of some virtue or sacrificeour known mentality. This and much more lives concealed in the subconscience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1222/physicalout-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-educationknowledge#p9</ref>
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Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it.He is aware only of thoughts, feelings etc.that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own.Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation etc. which take particular forms in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside.But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness is a thing to , or whatever it may be eliminated, before it enters and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not accepted go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or enjoyed..they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-andenvironmental-healthconsciousness#p58p6</ref>
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When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone...you have not to accept illness as When something is erased from the Divine Will, but rather look upon subconscient so completely that it as an imperfection leaves no seed and thrown out of the body… circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only can we be sure that we have finished with it for ever. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2928/equalitythe-subconscient-and-the-chief-supportinconscient#p18p17,p19</ref>
==Result Role of the Divine ForceVital==
The Divine Force cannot by its descent be All this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, claims, preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the cause wickedness of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness… others, complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you and the reactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and nerves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidentsdoctors-possessionand-madnessmedicines#p30p9</ref>
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Whatever force is sent is for cureIf you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence. More than half of our illnesses are the result of blows of this kind, and this happens much more often than one believes. Increase Only, men are not conscious of illness or physical suffering is their vital, and as they are not conscious they don't know that fifty per cent of their illnesses are the result of what happens in the vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the forcephysical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness29-andapril-health1953#p14p8</ref>
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I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of Unfortunately, there is the body is vital which pokes its nose into the natural affair and general result of takes a very perverse pleasure in increasing, twisting, sharpening the practice of Yoga or that that practice is suffering. Now this deforms the cause whole system because instead of being an inevitable breakdown indicator, sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the illness, for making oneself interesting, and also having the opportunity to pity oneself—all kinds of health...It is more rational to conclude that both Yogis and non-Yogis fall ill and die things which all come from natural causes the vital and by the same dispensation of Nature… are all detestable, one more than another. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/illness17-andnovember-health1954#p8p20</ref>
==Imperfection in Other Parts==<center>~</center>
As for the question about the illness, perfection Illness in the physical plane body is indeed part of like impurity in the ideal of the Yogavital, but ...It may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one may have throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is the result of a certain perfection on other planes without having immunity in Force working within and not of the bodyillness. It is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p57p62</ref>
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...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the outer expression small part in oneself that—how to put it?—takes pleasure in being ill. Oh! there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out of spite, there are people who are ill out of a disorderhate, there are people who are ill through despair, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—there are people...And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are small movement in the habit of thinking that the body being: one is very disturbed when it's ill, when something vexed and says: "You will see what is going wrongto happen, you will see the consequences of what he has done to me! Let it's come! I am going to be ill." One does not so. It isn't disturbed say it openly to oneself, for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere that thinks in the that way we understand it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0205/january22-31july-19611953#p3p57</ref>
==Incurable==<center>~</center>
There is no such thing as an incurable ...vital when left to itself often invites illness in reality—for what , it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge the doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy… tamas, etc. etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailmentsillness-and-other-physical-problemshealth#p1p63</ref>
=What Is the Cause?=<center>~</center>
It's Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the realm human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that'sit has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too...anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult.And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama. beyond But the seed of the difficulty is that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the subtle physicalconsciousness—the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama. Drama—the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have a toothache, it becomes a drama; if you bang against something, it becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, and it's becomes a drama—everything becomes a drama. The taste for drama. The slightest upset in the body, the realm in least disorder, which formations of illness MATERIALIZE.should go completely unnoticed, oh, it makes a big fuss,a drama.The taste for drama. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0408/decemberjune-2514-19631967#p13p3</ref>
...all disorders...and all diseases are the result ==Role of DOUBT in the cells...they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/may-14-1964#p4</ref>Suggestions==
The feeling of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it...It is like a wrong suggestion in the mind; if the cause of disease is psychicmind accepts it, that is it becomes clouded and confused and has to say, subjective struggle back into harmony and clearness. It is so with the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means… body consciousness and illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/moralityillness-and-yogahealth#p46p22</ref>
In its lowest parts (vital-material) <center>~</center> When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion. A wave comes in the body—with a certain vibration in it is , the body remembers "cold" or feels the agent vibrations of paina cold and begins to cough or sneeze or to feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>That is how illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion like this or otherwise, physical the nervous being and try to come in. Even if the illness etcis not contagious, this often happens, but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses.The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/theillness-physicaland-consciousnesshealth#p25p31</ref>
==Fear==
The first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is ''Fear''.It [fear] is more dangerous than the worst disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p30,p31</ref>
If there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p3~</refcenter>
...fear always brings what If there is one fears. If you mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you...And the same thing holds for illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0604/2731-januarymarch-19541951#p6p3</ref>
In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body.In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical disturbance...this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine's Grace,the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p3~</refcenter>
If you have fear or apprehension Not be afraid of illness in your vitalfalling ill! That's what. You see, they say, that is "But I AM ill." They put it the other way around: they say they're ill, and so they are afraid. It's not true! They are afraid first thing , and then they fall ill. They constantly live with a sort of apprehension: "Oh, what's going to be thrown awayhappen?" So something happens! (''Mother laughs'') The poor body feels that's what is expected of it, as and it helps the illnesses to come in. obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3107/illnessoctober-and22-health1966#p69p4</ref>
...they say they're ill, and so they are afraid. It's not true! They are afraid first, and then they fall ill. They constantly live with a sort of apprehension: "Oh, what's going to happen?" So something happens! ...The poor body feels that's what is expected of it, and it obeys! <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p5~</refcenter>
Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable.And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary.It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses.a And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the cells—is noblest sense of the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear which opens is more difficult to overcome; without it even the door to all contagionmost violent attacks could be repelled.If one has a minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity.It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref>
Diseases are just that...The two things together: possession and fear,... And a sense of helplessness in all that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it... And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, "Oh, it's going to be that way... oh, it's going to be a disease...." <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/december-18-1965#p9~</refcenter>
The real disease We know that fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you. In this see, it may be said that it is fearthe result of character. And the same thing holds for illness. Throw There are people who can move about among the fear away sick and in places where there are epidemics and never catch a disease. There are others—it is enough for them to spend an hour with a sick person, they catch the disease will goillness. That too depends on what they are within themselves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1506/fear27-andjanuary-illness1954#p9p6</ref>
==Subconscient==<center>~</center>
In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full The two things together: possession and fear, a sort of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], fearfulness.And a sense of helplessness in all that.The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, and a fear, a helplessness to resist.habitual reactions formed And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by our past, an obscure vital"Oh, it's going to be that way...oh, it's going to be a most obscure material which governsdisease... with the condition of the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses…" <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0906/junedecember-1518-19681965#p6p9</ref>
The subconscient is the main...support of death and disease and ...of... Ignorance... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p37~</refcenter>
...In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body...remains submerged and obscurely at work below our conscious nature...into which past impressions and all that is rejected from In the ordinary consciousness of the surface mind sink and remain body there dormant and can surge up in sleep is a more or in any absence less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the mind,…forms slightest physical disturbance. It can be translated by these words of automatic vital reaction or impulse, forms doubt about the future: "And what will happen?" It is this anxiety that must be checked. Indeed this anxiety is a lack of physical abnormality or nervous perturbanceconfidence in the Divine's Grace, forms of morbidity, disease, unbalance..the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2215/outfear-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfoldand-knowledgeillness#p9p3</ref>
If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this[the] environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-environmental-consciousness#p6</ref>The suggestions that create illness or unhealthy conditions of the physical being come usually through the subconscient...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40</ref>==Disharmony==
When First of all, from the physical consciousness is being changed, point of view of the chief resistance comes from body—just the subconscientbody—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back I do not know if you are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then you have all the parts of your body: nerves, muscles, bones and all the inertiarest. Now, weaknessif an organ by itself is in disequilibrium, obscurityit is an organic disequilibrium,and you are told: that organ is ill or perhaps it is badly formed or it is not normal or an accident has occurred to it.But it is the organ that is ill..or But the illnessesorgan may be in a very good condition, dullnessesall your organs may be in a very good condition, painsbut there is still an illness as they do not function properly: there is a lack of balance in the functioning. You may have a very good stomach, incapabilities but suddenly something happens to which it and it does not function properly; or the body-nature is pronemay also be excellent, but something happens to it and it does not work properly any more. Then you have an illness due to functional imbalance not organic imbalance. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2805/the22-subconscient-and-thejuly-inconscient1953#p17p31</ref>
==Forces of Disintegration==<center>~</center>
TheyHuman life and mind are neither in tune with Nature like the animals nor with Spirit—it [there''human nature''] are forces of disintegration...this is the origin of germs disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and microbesbalance. Therefore most microbes have behind them We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a bad will disease...The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0528/22science-julyand-1953yoga#p49p69</ref>
The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you ...succumb to an illness ...due to a "depression of the vital force"...the depression...comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. ...this depression...created[creates] ...a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it. ...It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p14~</refcenter>
There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"... but it's all The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the same thing!... For natural balance of the cellsbody and create in it fatigue,the problem isexhaustion and disease...whether to follow It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the Will for Transformation...or whether to follow psychic centre of the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposingbeing.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0612/julythe-science-7of-1965living#p7p14</ref>
==Inertia==
The human body has always been in the habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price it pays for its inertia and ignorance. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77p78</ref><center>~</center>All ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance or wrong movement there [in the vital], only it has sometimes a more physical and sometimes a more psychological character... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p5</ref> It's [ illness is] the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow the movement), ...an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is, the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a form of inertia—it's all a form of inertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond. These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death. That is, the disintegration of created harmony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-2-1968#p38</ref> ...the body's whole functioning is a discipline, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the discipline—out of revolt or incapacity or... for any reason—if it stops following the discipline, you fall ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/february-8-1969#p37</ref> ==Resistance== ...reaction against the transformative will is what causes... disorders... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/august-8-1961#p4</ref> ...in the body, whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses. Yet in a flash you sense that if you were totally receptive, you would become formidable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-6-1972#p32</ref> Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance ...or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even... that almost ...wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p12</ref> This[The] divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref>
==Adverse Forces==
Loss ...there is a group of such [feed upon human vitality thrown out of balance produces disorder in the consciousness body by emotions and excitements] small entities, they may clash with one another, because among themselves they do not have a very peaceful life: clashing with one another, fighting, destroying, demolishing each other. And that is the adverse origin of microbes. They are forces use of disintegration. But they continue to be alive even in their divided forms and this is the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will and that loss is what makes them so dangerous. And unless one knows the quality and kind of bad will and is capable of acting upon it, there is a ninety-nine per cent chance of balance not finding the true and complete remedy. The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are always around you, within you, for attacking… years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/accidents22-possessionjuly-madness1953#p24p49</ref>
Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p15~</refcenter>
They speak of viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak...it is some part but we are entirely made up of your body or...a fragment those things! It's only their interplay, their way of adjusting and harmonizing among themselves that makes all the vital difference. There is nothing that has gone wrong and wishes isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"—they give ugly names to be illthe things they don't want, but it's all the same thing!...For the cells, that's not the situation gets complicated if behind this there problem—the problem is an attacknot that, but whether to follow the Will for Transformation (which sometimes is a pressure from adverse forces who really want bit brutal—brutal compared to harm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through very small thing a movement of vanity, of angerbody is), of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open whether to follow the doorWill for Harmony... There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0506/22july-july7-19531965#p60p7</ref>
...when the mind and consciousness have rejected the attacks, the contrary forces fall on some weak point in the body hoping that by pain or illness they will depress the consciousness and so make it less strong to resist and reject them... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p95~</refcenter>
Sometimes The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is it's that all of a sudden you succumb to an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, illness which you did not have for some quite insignificant reason—what years? You will say it is commonly labeled due to a stupidity"depression of the vital force". This stems But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the fact that being, from a lack of receptivity to the adverse divine forces are always lying in wait. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, ready to rush in at a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage. It is this that is the least sign cause of weaknessyour falling ill and not microbes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0203/july19-18may-19611929#p59p14</ref>
==Disharmony==<center>~</center>
...the cause Hostile [''source of all illnesses, all disorders, all conflicts, illness''] here means hostile to the Yoga. An illness which comes in the material world, is that ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the two simultaneous movements (one is first cause—is an ordinary illness. One brought by the movement of Stability—and forces hostile to Yoga to upset the other, system and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attack. It may have the movement appearance of transformation)a cold or any other illness, but to the two movements in eye which sees the original Consciousness are action of forces and not only one and...herethe outward symptoms or results, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how to be in harmony: they can, but they don't knowthe difference is clear...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1131/februaryillness-25and-1970health#p8p17</ref>
Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature ...nor with Spirit—it [human nature] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance. We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a disease.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p62~</refcenter>
...if you choose and then draw back...always wavering, always doubting, always fearful, you create a disharmony in your being, which not only retards your progress, but can be Attacks of illness are attacks of the origin lower nature or of all kinds adverse forces taking advantage of disturbance some weakness, opening or response in the mind nature,—like all other things that come and vital being and discomfort and disease in the bodyhave got to be thrown away, they come from outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/16illness-juneand-1929health#p18p15</ref>
The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p14~</refcenter>
==In Specific Illnesses==...but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, it is some part of your body or at the most, a fragment of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, and unless you observe with a good deal of attention you do not notice it). But I say that the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the door. There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref>
Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign ==Lack of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>Receptivity==
Insanity is always due And in the body, whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses. Yet in a vital attackflash you sense that if you were totally receptive, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as wellyou would become formidable. Hysteria is due to a pressure from That's the vital world sensation. That's more and there may be momentary possessions alsomore my sensation: that if the entire consciousness, the entire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to this new Power... one would become for-mi-dable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3113/accidentsmay-possession6-madness1972#p22p32</ref>
...skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p216~</refcenter>
T.BYour inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the result form of a strong psychic-vital depressionillness...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other19-physicalmay-problems1929#p4p12</ref>
Depression is always the sign of an acute egoism. When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in a state of egoistic illness, I must cure myself of it."<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p29~</refcenter>
=Why Illness Develops?=This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the body, then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref>
...each one should find out for himself why he is ill.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p5~</refcenter>
You have been told: "Open yourself, you will receive the Force." You have been told: "Have faith, be of goodwill and you will be protected." And indeed you are bathed in the Consciousness, bathed in the Force, bathed in the Protection and to the extent you have faith and open yourself, you receive all that, and it helps you in keeping fit and in rejecting the little inner disturbances and re-establishing order when these come, in protecting yourself against small attacks or accidents which might have happened. But if somewhere in your being—either in your body or even in your vital or mind, either in several parts or even in a single one—there is an incapacity to receive the descending Force, this acts like a grain of sand in a machine.You know, a fine machine working quite well with everything going all right, and you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, only a grain of sand), suddenly everything is damaged and the machine stops. Well, just a little lack of receptivity somewhere, something that is unable to receive the Force, that is completely shut up (when you take one looks at it, it becomes as it were a little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a wrong attitudestone: the Force cannot enter into it, it refuses to receive it—either it cannot or it will not) and immediately sets off all that produces a great imbalance; and this thing that was moving upward, that was blooming so wonderfully, finds itself sick, and sometimes just when you were in the disorders..normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was going on well, you had nothing to complain about. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0305/june22-20july-19621953#p6p41</ref>
If the nervous being is...nervous and unstable...excitable, then ...there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49</ref>==Addictions==
Depression ...people...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and discouragement after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders...people of this kind, the brain was disordered, didn't function any more. And tobacco—nicotine is a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it[nervous envelope],serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells... render it weak is a slow poison because one doesn't feel it immediately except when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill.And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done.Only, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison.open And the body no longer reacts, it allows itself to hostile attacks..be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/1624-junemarch-19291954#p4</ref>
...passive meditation...leaves the vital and body passive and without defence against inertia, illness etc...The consciousness instead of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended...Concentration must in the earlier stages be active and dynamic with the consciousness gathered and capable of turning the will in any direction.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p86</ref>==In Specific Illnesses==
The psychical prana interferes in all the higher operations to deform them,... limits thereby the operations of the mind and becomes the link of its dependence on the body and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder, insanity, the pettiness, the precariousness and even the possible dissolution of the workings of the physical mentality… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5</ref>[For Individuals Practicing Integral Yoga]
==Affinity Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack.<ref>http://incarnateword.in the Being==/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>
...if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22~</refcenter>
Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well...Hysteria is due to a pressure from the sages say, "Disorder occurs because the nature has decided to vital world and there may be in disorder," it's not so sillymomentary possessions also.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0631/mayaccidents-8possession-1965madness#p39p22</ref>
In the psychological domain, only the patients who do not want to recover, do not recover. Perhaps it is the same for physical diseases...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/5-january-1933#p3~</refcenter>
...people skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always think that it is not their fault that they are ill, and it is always their fault, and they are very angry when they are told this...And yet it is truebut often.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/16-february-1955sex#p37p216</ref>
Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body…<center>~</center>
[Based on Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to the body if the soul T.B. is flawed; for the sins result of the mind are the secret cause a strong psychic-vital depression...The lack of the sins vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause. Moderns have not the body. So too poverty solid nervous system and trouble will always return on man in society, so long the natural (as opposed to the mind artificial and morbid) zest of the race is subjected to egoismlife that their ancestors had.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-199physical-200problems#p1p4</ref>
Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1~</ref>[Based on aphorism<386center>]
==To Teach Depression is always the sign of an acute egoism. When you feel that it is coming near, tell yourself: "I am in a Lesson==state of egoistic illness, I must cure myself of it." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-december-1950#p29</ref>
...all the so-called illnesses, everything, all the disorders are =How to make you learn a lesson—as soon as you've learned the lesson, it's over! But then, you are so slow and heavy, you take so much time to realize that it's a lesson that it drags on and on and on.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p63</ref>Prevent Illness?=
It is to make you understand that whenever you are ill''Q. Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, something is ill in your being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/april-24-1960#p1</ref>how can one stop it?''
''A...One thinks '' Ah! First of curing an illness only because one suffers. If it caused you no unpleasantnessall, you would never think of being cured of must not want it. So, and nothing in the economy of Nature I think that body must want it. You must have a very strong will not to be ill. This is the first purpose of physical suffering was to give you a warningcondition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p19</ref>
Your illness gave you an opportunity The second condition is to open your eyes towards call the need for an inner change. You must take advantage light, a light of equilibrium, a light of this peace, quietude and progressbalance, and to push it into all the cells of the body, enjoining them not to be afraid, because that again is another condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p28</ref>
The First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness has come like at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a test calm certitude and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing complete trust in the way power of the joy Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of an integral consecration.<ref>http://incarnatewordsomething else, not be concerned about this any longer.When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in/cwm/15/inner-causes-the cells of-the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness#p17</ref>, forgetting that it exists... there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this.
Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body trembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is in the cells of the body that the trembling goes on.It trembles with a terrible anxiety and this is what attracts the illness.It is there that you must put the force and the state quietude of illness was certainly a necessity, often a WILLED necessity ...by the soul perfect peace and an absolute trust in order to go faster on the path—to save time, to gain livesGrace. And if you canthen, if sometimes you have the power are obliged to bring that soul into contact drive away with the a similar force in your thought all suggestions that governs its existence after all, the physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and leads because one was in contact with somebody who is ill, one is sure to catch it towards progress, towards and then, that the Realizationinner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, you do a work and all kinds of stupidities of quite a superior qualitywhich the air is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0507/september11-26may-19641955#p32p10,p11,p12,p13,p14</ref><center>~</center>The child must be taught as early as possible that this does not work and that he does not become more interesting by being ill, but rather the contrary. The weak have a tendency to believe that their weakness makes them particularly interesting and to use this weakness and if necessary even illness as a means of attracting the attention and sympathy of the people around them. On no account should this pernicious tendency be encouraged. Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrifice.
==Old Habit That is why, as soon as the child is able to make use of Consciousness==his limbs, some time should be devoted every day to the methodical and regular development of all the parts of his body. Every day some twenty or thirty minutes, preferably on waking, if possible, will be enough to ensure the proper functioning and balanced growth of his muscles while preventing any stiffening of the joints and of the spine, which occurs much sooner than one thinks. In the general programme of the child's education, sports and outdoor games should be given a prominent place; that, more than all the medicines in the world, will assure the child good health. An hour's moving about in the sun does more to cure weakness or even anaemia than a whole arsenal of tonics. My advice is that medicines should not be used unless it is absolutely impossible to avoid them; and this "absolutely impossible" should be very strict. In this programme of physical culture, although there are well-known general lines to be followed for the best development of the human body, still, if the method is to be fully effective in each case, it should be considered individually, if possible with the help of a competent person, or if not, by consulting the numerous manuals that have already been and are still being published on the subject.
But in any case a child, whatever his activities, should have a sufficient number of hours of sleep. The number will vary according to his age. In the cradle, the baby should sleep longer than he remains awake. The number of hours of sleep will diminish as the child grows. But until maturity it should not be less than eight hours, in a quiet, well-ventilated place. The child should never be made to stay up late for no reason.The hours before midnight are the best for resting the nerves.Even during the waking hours, relaxation is indispensable for all who want to maintain their nervous balance.To know how to relax the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits muscles and the force of illness… nerves is an art which should be taught to children when they are very young.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/illness-andphysical-healtheducation#p54p9,p10,p11</ref>
When you are open and in contact with the Divine, the Vibration gives you strength, energy; and if you are quiet enough, it fills you with great joy—and all of this in the cells of the body. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, the SAME thing, the SAME vibration coming from the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertainty, instability and decrepitude… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15~</refcenter>
==In Addictions==...there are those who are luminous, sunny, happy, smiling and those who are gloomy, dull, misanthropic, dissatisfied, who live in grey shadows. It is the latter who catch all the unpleasant things. Those who are radiant (they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance, it may be just a radiation of good see, balance, an inner confidence, the joy of living), those who carry in themselves the joy of living, these are in harmony with Nature and, being in harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible in the world as it is. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p8</ref>
...they ...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4~</refcenter>
...nicotine The secret is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys to emerge from the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the cellsDivine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him...when Then, once one smokes for the first time has discovered this secret and realises it makes in one very ill's being, pain loses its justification and suffering disappears. And this should make you understand that it ought It is an all-powerful remedy, not to be done. Onlyonly in the deeper parts of the being, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to in the poison. And soul, in the body no longer reactsspiritual consciousness, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of but also in life and in the reactionbody. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</ref>
==Role There is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of Suggestions==this secret and the putting of it into practice, not only in the higher parts of the being but in the cells of the body.
The feeling of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a If one knows how to teach the cells the splendour that lies within them, if one knows how to make them understand the reality because your which makes them exist, gives them being, then they too enter the total harmony, and the physical consciousness accepts it...It is so with disorder which causes the body consciousness and illness..vanishes as do all other disorders of the being. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness13-andfebruary-health1957#p22p9,p10,p11</ref>
When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>...If you drink unfiltered water and think, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears;...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref>==By Faith==
It is quite obvious that one of the most powerful means for acting on the body is faith.People who have a simple heart, not a very complicated mind—simple people, you see—who don't have a very great, very complicated mental development but have a very deep faith, have a great power of action over their bodies, very great.. illnesses try to come from That is why one is quite surprised at times: "Here's a man with a great realisation, an exceptional person to another—they attack, by and he is a suggestion... or otherwise, the nervous being and try to come in. Even if slave of all the illness is not contagioussmallest physical things, while this often happensman, well, he is so simple and looks so uncouth, but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses. The suggestion or touch he has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-a great faith and goes through difficulties and-health#p31</ref>obstacles like a conqueror!"
Something I don't say that a highly cultured man can't have faith, but it is wrong here or more difficult, for there in the bodyis always this mental element which contradicts, discusses, tries to understand, which is difficult to convince, a small thing;which wants proofs.His faith is less pure.. If you are unfortunate enough It is necessary, then, to pass on to utter a word about it to anyonehigher degree in the evolutionary spiral, and especially pass from the mental to the doctor.spiritual; then, naturally, faith takes on a quality of a very high order..it instantly becomes an illness…. it's because the cells But I mean that are in disorder feel all of daily life, ordinary life, a sudden they are very important and simple man who has a very interesting persons!... If they ardent faith can have a movement that isn't harmonious, they exaggerate it—it becomes even less harmonious in order to assert itself more mastery over his body—without it being truly a "mastery"; it is simply a spontaneous movement—a control over his body far greater than somebody who has reached a much higher development. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0609/august19-4june-19651957#p33p20,p21</ref>
==Role of Vital==<center>~</center>
There are sadhus...the main obstacle is your own vital movementsthey live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith...Quietness they do not think of their body, they think of the mind in facing your life of their soul. They have no illness is also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/doctors22-andjuly-medicines1953#p9p24</ref>
If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence... illnesses are the result of what happens in the vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the physical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/29-april-1953#p8~</refcenter>
...there is the vital which...takes a very perverse pleasure inYoga... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying faith and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the illness...all kinds of things which all come from point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the vital Truth-consciousness acts automatically and are all detestable, ..produces its natural results.But originally I think that it was this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take care, there's something out of order."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/17illness-novemberand-1954health#p20p39</ref>
...vital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge the tamas, etc. etc. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p63</ref> ...there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref> Illness in the body is like impurity in the vital,...It may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is the result of a Force working within and not of the illness. It is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62~</refcenter>
Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that ...it must be an integral faith and it has a rabid taste for dramamust be absolute. And it must be of coursethe right kind, behind there is the vital being having funnot merely a force of mental thought or will, influences too.but something more and deeper.. all that enjoys an opportunity to delay The will put forth by the divine Work mind sets up opposite reactions and make things difficultcreates a resistance... But the seed Mental faith is not sufficient; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the difficulty is body...extreme pettiness you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the very cells of...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama..body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0803/june5-14may-19671929#p3p18</ref>
...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out of spite,...out of hate...through despair, there are people... one is vexed and says: "...you will see the consequences of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneself, for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere that thinks in that way. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p57~</refcenter>
...[if] the illness returns. This means that the cause has Most men are not been changed, that the cause is conscious of this pranic force in the vital and is still there; body or cannot distinguish it is only from the effect more physical form of energy which has been curedit informs and uses for its vehicle. But if one as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yoga, we can come to be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us, feel it with the mental consciousness, concretely with a mental sense, see its courses and movements, and direct and act simultaneously upon both it immediately by the cause will. But until we thus become aware of it, we have to possess a working or at least an experimental faith in its presence and in the effectpower of the will to develop a greater command and use of this prana force. There is necessary a faith, ''śraddhā'', in the power of the mind to lay its will on the state and action of the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to changebody, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action; but we must seek this control not only for this or any other limited use, then one but generally as a legitimate power of the inner and greater over the outer and lesser instrument. This faith is completely curedcombated by our past habits of mind, once for allby our actual normal experience of its comparative helplessness in our present imperfect system and by an opposing belief in the body and physical consciousness. For they too have a limiting ''śraddhā'' of their own which opposes the idea in the mind when it seeks to impose on the system the law of a higher yet unattained perfection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0424/31the-marchpower-of-the-1951instruments#p13p7</ref>
=How =By Being Receptive to Prevent Illness?the Divine Force==
First, not What has to be done with the body at first is to want make it open to be illthe Force, and then not so as to be afraid of receive strength against illness. You and fatigue—when they come, there must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude the power to react and throw them off and to keep a complete trust in constant flow of force into the body. If that is done, the power rest of the Grace to shelter you from everything.bodily change can wait for its proper time..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0728/11transformation-mayand-the-1955body#p13p2</ref>
We ought <center>~</center> As the body consciousness becomes more open to use the divine health in us Force (it is always the most difficult and the last to cure open up entirely), this frequent stress of illness will diminish and prevent diseases..disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismillness-394and-395-396-397-398-399health#p1p56</ref>[Based on aphorism<394>]
The secret is to emerge from ==By Strengthening the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him. There is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of this secret and the putting of it into practice, not only in the higher parts of the being but in the cells of the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p10</ref>Nervous Envelope==
When people To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with the exterior world are ill made through this medium, and get well quicklyit is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, they are full you can go into places infested with the worst of gratitude; but never do they think diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of being grateful when they are well; illness, so long as it is whole and yet that entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance. This body is built up, on the one side, of a much greater miracle!material basis, but rather of material conditions than of physical matter, on the other, of the vibrations of our psychological states.Peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health, undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and substance.It is a very sensitive medium with facile and quick reactions; it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0503/2316-decemberjune-19531929#p52</ref>
For you to be able to do all kinds of things ...you must have a triple equilibrium—mental, vital, physical—and not only in each of the parts, but also in the three parts in their mutual relations.... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p30~</refcenter>
If one can feel them [attacks of illness] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then one can remain free from illness.Even when the attack seems to rise from within, that means only that it has not been detected before it entered the subconscient; once in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later and it invades the system.When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because though it came direct and not through the subconscient, yet you could not detect it while it was still outside.particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseasesVery often it arrives like that, frontally or more often tangentially from the side, direct,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly forcing its way through the health subtle vital envelope which is our main armour of defence, but it can be stopped there in the envelope itself before it penetrates the material body.Then one may feel some effect, e.g. feverishness or a tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of the malady.If it can be stopped earlier or if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there is no illness; the attack produces no physical effect and leaves no traces.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/hathayogaillness-and-health#p10p15</ref>
...in Yoga...faith and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p39~</refcenter>
...as we can feel the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice symptoms of Yogaillness, we can come to be aware of fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before they are manifest in the sea of pranic shakti around usgross body and destroy them there,preventing them from manifesting in the body.Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda..But until If we thus become aware of live only in the outward physical consciousness, it, may descend and work behind the veil but we have to possess shall feel nothing and only see certain results after a long time...necessary Or at most we feel a faithcertain clarity and peace in the mind, śraddhāa joy in the vital, a happy state in the physical and infer the touch of the Divine. But if we are awake in the inward physical, we shall feel the light, power of or Ananda flowing through the mind to lay its will on body, the state limbs, nerves, blood, breath and action of , through the subtle body, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action.affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the Divine Power and Presence..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2428/the-powerphysical-of-the-instrumentsconsciousness#p7p12 </ref>
The exercises of Pranayama are ==By Rejecting the familiar mechanical means Suggestion of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy...The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates. Its effectivity is immense,.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p6</ref>Illness==
==Having Faith==You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical mind and so help the body consciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, "No, I shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case call in the Mother's Force to throw out the suggestion and the illness it is bringing. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p22</ref>
If people had an absolute faith in the healing power of the Grace, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few diseases.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-14-1970#p12~</refcenter>
Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting...it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of Take coughing, for instance (not in the chest, in the right kindthroat). So, not merely the first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a force certain kind of mental thought or willvibration which we may call "pointed, " but something more and deeperit's not violent: it's light, annoying. The will put forth by It's the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistancefirst little vibration...Mental faith is not sufficientSo with that vibration: awakening of the attention in the surrounding consciousness (of the throat cells); it must be completed and enforced by then a vital and even refusal to accept the cough, a physical faithrejection here (in the throat), which at first almost causes nausea (all this is seen through a faith of the bodymicroscope, you understand, they are very tiny things).The attention is focused..you must reach down Then, at that point, there are several possible factors, which are sometimes simultaneous and sometimes one drives away the other; one is anxiety: something goes wrong and there is apprehension at what's going to happen; the most subconsciousother is a will that nothing should be disturbed by the irritation; and then all of a sudden, you must fix the faith in that the very cells Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of the bodythis is intellectual: it's vibrations)...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0308/5february-may8-19291967#p18p8</ref>
There are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith...they do not think of their body, they think of the life of their soul. They have no illness... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p24~</refcenter>
Those who are radiant...they may if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance...those who carry in themselves dominated by the habitual suggestions and the joy of livinghabitual movements, these are in harmony with Nature recurrences of depression anddespair can be made soon to cease. But it is not easy for this mind, being in harmony with Natureonce it has got into the habit of consent, generally avoid accidentseven a quite passive and suffering and reluctant consent, they are immune from diseases to cancel the habit and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible get rid of the black circle. It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the world as it is..suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0630/27the-januaryemergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-1954psychic#p8p45</ref>
==Being Receptive to the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
What has to Illness must not be done with accepted as a means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the force of transformation especially in the vital and the body at first . But it is not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed to make it open to take this obscure form of illness. All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force, so as should be called in to receive strength against illness and fatigue—when they come, there must be cure by the power assent to react and throw them off health and the refusal of assent to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If suggestions that is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for bring or prolong its proper timeopposite.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/transformationillness-and-the-bodyhealth#p2p4</ref>
Try to keep yourself open to our Force in the body, that is the main thing... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p8</ref>==By Developing a Strong Will==
...he[one] must believe firmly that it[the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness] must and will gogoes through the experiences which are associated with it—e.g. congestion of phlegm in the chest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty of breathing etc. If he[To get rid of that one] can keep this attitude must awaken a will and open consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to the true force, the mind and nervous being once strengthened, the illness and weakness will disappearimpose themselves upon it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p65p54</ref>
...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body, that He has BECOME the body, yet all the while retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence...it was[is] absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only in the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER...There was[is] a divine harmony in EVERYTHING...So if that[this] is established in a permanent way,...There can no longer be accidents, ...illness,... disorders, and everything should harmonize...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-6-1958#p10</ref> When the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must...face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a falsehood and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p12~</refcenter>
As the body consciousness becomes more open Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the Force (it is always mind but a will in the most difficult and the last very cells of your body. Without that you can't do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won't cure you unless you have a will to open up entirely), this[overcome the] frequent stress of physical illness will diminish and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnesswill-to-andconquer-healthillness#p56p1</ref>
==Strengthening the Nervous Envelope==<center>~</center>
...illness ...mustThe idea is put into the heart or the life as a force to be accepted and worked out; the heart and life become conscious of the idea and respond to its dynamisms and their substance begins to modify itself in that sense, so that the feelings and actions become the vibrations of this higher wisdom, are informed with it, before filled with the emotion and the sense of it can affect : the will and the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-effectuation; even in the physical bodythe idea works so that, touch another layer for example, the potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, or the being...called...idea of strength calls in the etheric bodysubstance, power, motion, vibration of strength; the idea generates the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body force and yet almost visible...it emanates from form proper to the physical body idea and closely covers imposes iton our substance of mind, life or matter. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it It is in this way that must be invaded and penetrated the first before working proceeds; it charges the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong whole being with a new and intactsuperior consciousness, you can... remain quite immune. It is lays a perfect protection against all possible attacks foundation of illness...It is change, prepares it for a very sensitive medium...it readily takes in all kinds superior truth of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its conditionexistence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0322/16the-ascent-junetowards-1929supermind#p23</ref>
If one is conscious of the subtle body or with the subtle consciousness, one can stop an illness on its way ==By Pranayama and prevent it from entering the physical body... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52</ref>Asana==
The ...the first objects of the Pranayama are to purify the nervous (vitalsystem, to circulate the life-physical) being supports energy through all the body—if it is calm nerves without obstruction, disorder or irregularity, and strong to acquire a complete control of its functionings, so that the mind and solid, then will of the soul inhabiting the body may be no longer subject to the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear life or their combined limitations. The power of these exercises of breathing to bring about a purified and more easily get rid unobstructed state of it. If the nervous being system is weaka known and well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to clear the physical system, then it but is not entirely effective at first on all its canals and openings; therefore the opposite.Hathayogin uses supplementary physical methods for clearing them out regularly of all their accumulations.The combination of these with Asana,—particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/illness-and-healthhathayoga#p49p10</ref>
...if we develop the inward physical consciousness, we become aware of a subtle environmental physical atmosphere and can feel the forces of illness coming towards us through it, feel them even at a distance and, if we have learned how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p12 ~</refcenter>
==Rejecting The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy. They heighten too and set free the psychic, mental and spiritual energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of action on the Suggestion pranic force. But the same thing can be done by mental will and practice or by an increasing opening of ourselves to a higher spiritual power of Illness==the Shakti. The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p6</ref>
The body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-=How to-conquer-illness#p10</ref>Deal with Illness?=
All When the action is directly upon the body, that is, on the affected part, it is possible that one is relieved; then, some hours later or even after a few days, the illness should be rejected returns. This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and all suggestions of illnessis still there; it is only the effect which has been cured. But if one can act simultaneously upon both the Force should be called in to cure by cause and the assent to health effect, and the refusal of assent cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to the suggestions that bring or prolong its oppositechange, then one is completely cured, once for all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/31/illness-andmarch-health1951#p4p13</ref>
...depression is the worst of all illnesses and we must reject it with as much energy as we use to get rid of a disease.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p10~</refcenter>
It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer ''Q: What to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p45</ref>do about illness?''
By suggestion [of illness] I A: Be passively confident: let me do not mean merely thoughts or words. When the hypnotist says, "Sleep", it and it is a suggestion; but when he says nothing but only puts his silent will to convey sleep or makes movements of his hands over the face, that also is a suggestiondone.’ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnesscure-by-the-anddivine-healthgrace#p23p8</ref>
...your belief in the sanitary precautions you take helps them to work. For your thought is, "Now I am disinfected and safe", and to that extent it makes you safe.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p16~</refcenter>
It There is always better not something there that expects the illness, accepts it when it comes and gives it free play. He must learn to saykeep calm and quiet in the mind and vital being, "I will now have no more to refuse to regard the illness"and the tendency to it in the body as something normal to it, regarding it attracts the attention of these malevolent powers rather as something imposed from outside, and they immediately want to prove he must believe firmly that they it must and will go. If he can still disturb keep this attitude and open to the true force, the body. Simply when they comemind and nervous being once strengthened, reject themthe illness and weakness will disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p48p65</ref>
...you get a queer sick feeling inside, a cold in ==By Calling the back, a little uneasiness,...as though the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength of will keep the faith that nothing can do you harm, nothing can touch you. This suffices, you can throw off the illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately ...you must not wait five minutes, it must be done at once... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref>Divine Force==
...if ''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses symptoms of his disease''A:The best way is to be dominated by call for the habitual suggestions Divine Presence of Truth and the habitual movementsHarmony, these[to replace the] recurrences vibrations of depression disorder and despair can be made soon to cease...It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circleconfusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3015/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychicgeneral#p45p28</ref>
These auto-suggestions [of being restored to good health]—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, ...in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37~</refcenter>
==Having Will To heal [''illness''] by the true force is obviously the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of Health==its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1</ref><center>~</center>There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. That is why one should be very careful. Anyhow, for some reason or other, the influence has pierced through the shell of protection and acts there encouraging the illness to become as bad as it can be. In that case the first means is not quite sufficient. Then you have to add something; you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref>
...the potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p23~</refcenter>
You must have For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, you can see when that disorder is the natural origin of an illness, for example, or of something very strong will serious), with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving: the damaged spot opens to the Influence, not to be ill. This with an idea of getting cured, but like this (''gesture like a flower opening out''), simply like this, unconditionally—that is the first conditionmost potent gesture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0708/11december-may20-19551967#p11p25</ref>
Do not love your ill health and the ill health will leave you.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p4~</refcenter>
Wake up The particular place in yourself a will the body affected by an illness is an index to conquerthe nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. Not a mere will in It points to the mind but origin, it is a will in sign of the very cells cause of your bodythe ailment. Without It reveals too the nature of the resistance that you can't do anythingprevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed.It indicates the treatment and the cure.If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1503/will-to16-conquerjune-illness1929#p1p8</ref>
...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness...To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54~</refcenter>
=How to Deal with Illness?= ''Q: What to do about illness?'' A: Be passively confident: let me do We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is doneunreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine.’<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1506/cure-by-thejuly-divine10-grace1965#p8p6</ref>
...whenever I had an illness...I had a trust, a complete assurance that it had no reality....every time a blow came, I would tell my body, "But what's the use of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" ...And it faded away only little by little...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p40</ref>
When the disease came back, I said to myself, It ['Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.'<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10</ref> It [the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical'']brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the cells and all the physical movements.The body becomes conscious and vigilant and performs the right movements, obeying the higher will or else automatically by force of the consciousness that has come into it..It becomes more possible to control the functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the body and even over happenings to it from outside, e.g. minimising of accidents and small mishaps. The body becomes a more effective instrument for work. It becomes possible to minimise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the whole physical system. These are the more obvious and normal results which grow as the consciousness grows, but there are many others that are possible. There is also the unity with the earth-consciousness, the constant sense of the Divine in the physical, etc.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p26</ref>
...Once the illness has got in, it [the body] can fight and overcome it...But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p3</ref>==By Overcoming Fear==
...But sick peopleone must be neither cowardly nor fearful... when I tell themWhen the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, "Be sincereconfidence," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want with the Divine, all certitude that must stop. Thatillness is a ''falsehood''s all... <ref>http://incarnateword.and that if one turns entirely, in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p41</ref>...full confidence, with a complete quietude to the method divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is to change established in the subconscient into depths of the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes consciousbeing, at that moment it must be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter and the subconscient cells themselves will share in one's full consciousness the eternal Truth and work there..Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0709/1113-mayfebruary-19551957#p7p12</ref>
...when there is an illness ...automatically the cells forget ...their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember...my ambition was that the cells should remember when being ill...The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happy. But now,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first...got a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: "Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn"—that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory...."<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p1~</refcenter>
A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear.The cells themselves tremble.It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear.the last stage But it is a fact that one can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. And, you see,from a certain point of view everything is contagious. I knew a person who got a wound through the body should forget it has been ill; kind of fear thathe felt seeing someone else's very importantwound. He really got it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/october22-10july-19641953#p27p10</ref>
...You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6~</refcenter>
There have been numerous cases of a panic being stopped outright simply because some people refused the suggestion and could counteract it with an opposite suggestion.For mystics the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears.That is the cure for the mystic.a positive silence, which It is at the same time easiest of all. But everybody does not enjoy the grace of being a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder..mystic. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0405/august14-7october-19631953#p27p36</ref>
...the most difficult from the yogic point of view is toothache, because it is very close to the brain….Usually in a tooth it is the nerve which has been attacked by the caries, the disease, and which begins to protest with all its strength. So, if you succeed in establishing...immobility, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, the sick nerve will die and you will not suffer at all any more. Because it was that which was suffering and when it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try...<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p23~</refcenter>
...it is possible Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to turn be afraid, not to fear, and a natural harmony in the pains rhythm of their physical life which enables them to reduce the illness like any spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other pain into hand, with whom the thing always becomes as bad as it can be, sometimes to the point of catastrophe. There is the whole range and this can be seen quite easily. Well, this depends on a form kind of happy rhythm of the movement of life in them, which is either harmonious enough to resist external attacks of pleasure; for pain illness or else doesn't exist or is not sufficiently powerful, and pleasure are both is replaced by that trembling of them degradations fear, that kind of an original Ananda instinctive anguish which transforms the least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful. There is the whole range, from someone who can be reduced into go through the worst contagion and epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at the slightest chance. So naturally it always depends on the terms constitution of each other or else sublimated into their original principle person; and as soon as one wants to make an effort for progress, it naturally depends on the control one has acquired over oneself, until the moment when the body becomes the docile instrument of Ananda… the higher Will and one can obtain from it a normal resistance to all attacks.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p58p7</ref>
Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot...First point: do not stress the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus...and from there direct it very calmly...persistently, towards the place where the pain is..., and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality is the divine Reality...bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality,...and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21~</refcenter>
These [There] are phenomena It is true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to bear pain, it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted—this is a concrete result. In the case of self-identification. Onlypeople who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere, they who are involuntaryable to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that the body's capacity to bear the disorder without going to pieces increases.This is a great achievement.I have asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and it seems to be like this. When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill Inwardly, I have been told this many times—told and weakened shown by excessive agitationsmall experiences—that the body can bear much more than we think, he if no fear or anxiety is told added to sit in front of an aquarium... and look at the fishpain. So he looks at If we eliminate the fish, moving around, coming and goingmental factor, ...After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goesbody, swimsleft to itself, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a perfect state and he is completely restful! <ref>http://incarnatewordgreat deal.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p18</ref>
==Calling [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in the Divine Force==rapture. She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-93#p3</ref>
Most of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in the force. Those that are chronic are more difficult, but they too can be got rid of by the same means if persistently used. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref>...with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender,... the damaged spot opens to the Influence,...(gesture like a flower opening out),...unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25~</refcenter>
But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even... of dying—you must be like this (''vast and quiet gesture, like the sea''Q). If we could only have (I have it from time to time, it comes:When I am sympathetic with it's on its way) a sick person my body begins feeling of smiling trust. But to feel get that the consciousness must be as vast as the creation itself. You are as vast as the symptoms of his diseasecreation, and totally trusting....Ultimately, it always boils down to this (which can be put in a very childlike manner): He knows better than we what has to be done.<ref>http://incarnateword.''in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref>
A:The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/general#p28</ref>==By Detachment==
The physical mind...makes use of the nervous substance; if you have a pain somewhere... we withdraw it corresponds to something withinfrom the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything,... the contact with for that's what gives us the true Force puts things back in orderperception of sensation... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-28-1970#p23</ref>We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it…
The pains in the body come from the same source as the trouble in the vital nature; ... Remain always quiet and persist in opening yourself. The Force that releases you from this kind of indifferent detachment is the vital trouble, can also remove ESSENTIAL condition for the disturbance establishment of true Harmony in the nervous part and the most material Matter—the most external, physical body… Matter... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3102/illnessjanuary-and31-health1961#p93p14</ref>
The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means... It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures... <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10~</refcenter>
...one used the[uses This detachment of the mind]... to make favourable formations—... to give confidence must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, to tell its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks. This does not mean that it is just we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a passing disturbance ..positive neglect of the physical frame.But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and if it enters a real state vital man attaches to the things of receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful resultsbody. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0523/23the-release-from-subjection-to-decemberthe-1953body#p36p2</ref>
==Overcoming Fear==<center>~</center>
Not be afraid of falling One step towards it [illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel that it is not you who are ill! That's but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, whatare its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/octoberillness-22and-1966health#p4p54</ref>
A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p10</ref>==By Surrender==
...as soon as one begins to feel afraid all those physical disorders of something [the body, those disorders in the functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one] is to think of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not only inside but around (around, sometimes over a rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the Divine least effort, and it starts... moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then snuggle , with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in his arms or at his feet the consciousness and leave him entirely responsible for everything any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that happensgrate. And then, withinas you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have the key!......the only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, outsidenot an inert surrender: intense, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappearsintense! ...That's the only thing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0506/14march-october20-19531965#p36p34,p37</ref>
...the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal. ==Medicine==
Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch a course of our Mother teaching us how action followed as a last resort] that have to hear and grow be used when something in rapturethe consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force. She has tree stages Very often it is some part of her schoolingthe material consciousness that is unreceptive—at other times it is the subconscient which stands in the way even when the whole waking mind, life, endurance firstphysical consent to the liberating influence. If the subconscient also answers, next equality then even a slight touch of the Force can not only cure the particular illness but make that form or kind of soul, last ecstasyillness practically impossible hereafter.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismdoctors-and-93medicines#p3p6</ref>
Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful,...the cells of the body[they] become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6~</refcenter>
But you mustn't 'Q. Mother, how are medicines to be afraid. Neither afraid of falling illused for a body which is not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the divine grace, nor of becoming imbecilewe see that we need a little medicine, nor even..and if a little medicine is given it has a good effect. of dying—you must be like Does this (vast mean that only the body needs medicine or is there something wrong with the mind and quiet gesture, like the sea). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref>vital?''
==Practicing Indifferent Detachment==A. In most cases the use of medicines—within reasonable limits, that is, when one doesn't poison oneself by taking medicines—is simply to help the body to have confidence. It is the body which heals itself. When it wants to be cured, it is cured. And this is something very widely recognised now; even the most traditional doctors tell you, "Yes, our medicines help, but it is not the medicines which cure, it is the body which decides to be cured." Very well, so when the body is told, "Take this", it says to itself, "Now I am going to get better", and because it says "I am going to get better", well, it is cured!
The physical mind.In almost every case, there are things which help—a little—provided it is done within reasonable limits..makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw If it from the nervous substance, we is no longer feel anythingwithin reasonable limits, for that's what gives us the perception of sensationyou are sure to break down completely.You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse...We know But still, a little help, in a way, a little something is wrongthat gives confidence to your body: "Now it will be all right, but we no longer suffer from it...now that I have taken this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter This it is the logical consequence... on the cause of illnesses going to be all right"—this helps it a great deal and how it decides to overcome themget better and it is cured.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p14</ref>
...detachment There too, there is a whole range of possibilities, from the mind must be strengthened by yogi who is in so perfect a certain attitude state of indifference inner control that he could take poison without being poisoned to the things one who at the least little scratch rushes to the doctor and needs all sorts of special drugs to get his body to make the body; we must not care essentially about movement needed for its cure...health or ill-healthThere is the whole possible range, from total,...This does not mean supreme mastery to an equally total bondage to all external aids and all that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or you absorb from outside—a bondage and a positive neglect of perfect liberation. There is the physical framewhole range. But we have not either to be affected in mind bySo everything is possible...discomfort or illIt is like a great key-health or attach the importance board, very complex and very complete, on which the physical one can play, and vital man attaches to the things of body is the bodyinstrument... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref>
One step towards If one can cure by the Force as you have often done, it[illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from best—but if for some reason the body—to feel that it body is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in able to respond to the Force (e.g. owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the disease), then the body and not affecting your consciousnessaid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is then possible not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to see this separate body act through the consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions but take the support of the treatment so as to things, how it works. One can then act directly on it the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to change physical means in its ordinary consciousness and reactions. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness19-andjune-health1957#p54p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>
Only, when one is not very much coddled, when one has a little endurance and decides within himself not to pay too much attention, quite remarkably the pain diminishes… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p21~</refcenter>
...Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the knowledge art of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. ..not getting well without medicines.all this calls for an occult power or a training...without going Even so far, there one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery is one thing that one can try to do: it in which the life is not to concentrate on one's pain,.abandoned as hopeless by the doctors..But[andAphorism<404>] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0710/27aphorism-404-405-april406-1955407#p16p1</ref>
==Re-establishing Harmony==<center>~</center>
So there are two things you have to Drugs often cure the body when they do when you have discovered the disordernot merely trouble or poison it, big or small—the disharmony. ...but only if their physical attack on the first thing to do is to quieten oneself, bring peace, calm, ... Afterwards you see what disease is supported by the cause force of the disorder...and through the pressure of light and knowledge and spiritual spirit; if that force you re-establish the harmony...if it does not offer any obstinate resistance, you can be cured in a few secondsmade to work freely, drugs are superfluous.[Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0510/22aphorism-404-405-july406-1953407#p58p4</ref>
One must be conscious, conscious ==Role of the working of one's organs,...When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies...you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the way to behave, and at the same time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36</ref>Supramental Descent==
The particular place in the body affected by an illness supramental descent is an index to the nature necessary for a dynamic action of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the originTruth in mind,vital and body... It indicates This would imply as a final result the treatment and disappearance of the cure. If one could... find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put unconsciousness of the force and the light there, body; it would no longer be possible subject to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed decay and the illness would immediately godisease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/16transformation-juneand-1929the-body#p8p16</ref>In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon it. Its sole power is the power to defend itself, to react. Once the illness has got in, it can fight and overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that the body is cured only when it decides to get cured; it is not the drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without the body's will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the body itself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom.
...But with the supramental manifestation, something new has taken place in the intervention of body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the Vibration ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of Harmony into the vibration of Disorderwhole being suddenly drawing itself up, allowing [allows] Disorder to ceasewith its head lifted high—I am my own master.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0501/marchoctober-2517-19641957#p34p3,p4</ref>
...we think the body is in good health, that it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance... and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we can have ...that [the] Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness… <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-10-1965#p6~</refcenter> ==Restoring Order==
The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change...if order For below the supramental it is restored at the center result of disorderan action of a Force among many forces and can be disturbed by a disruption of the equilibrium established—in the supramental it is a law of the nature; in a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, everything follows naturally, without your paying it any special attentioninherent in its new nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0531/septemberillness-26and-1964health#p63p52</ref>
That [The] intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere...if you are able to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration—the Vibration of Order and Harmony—and you stop the Disorder... all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p57</ref>==Helpful Practices==
If you organise everything—your feelingsSuppose that as a result of some illness or other, your thoughtsthere is some sort of pain at a precise spot. At that moment all will depend, your impulsesas I said at the beginning, etc,—around on the psychic centre which is the inner light, approach most familiar to you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order.<ref>http://incarnatewordBut we can give an example.You are in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p5</ref> ...the body itself awakening pain, in its cellsgreat pain; it is hurting very much, you are suffering a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestationlot.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p7</ref>
...First point: do not stress the habit of disease can pain by telling yourself, "Oh, how painful! Oh, this pain is unbearable! Oh, it is being worse and worse, I shall never beable to bear it", etc., all this sort of thing..minimised The more you go on thinking like this and gradually eliminated feeling like this and in the meantime more your attention is concentrated on it, the power of the mind to set right the disorders of the body whether by conscious manipulation of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increase..pain increases amazingly. <ref>httpSo, the first point://incarnatewordto control yourself sufficiently not to do that.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p5</ref>
=What Are Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits. If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of any kind―it may be a mental peace, it may be a vital peace, it may be a psychic peace; they have different values and qualities, this is an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace.... Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the Obstacles to Cure?=pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.
...someone who This is ill and BELIEVES in the reality of his illness; the effect of the Action is lessened in proportion to his wrong belief.<ref>http://incarnatewordnot always enough.in/agenda/13/june-24-1972#p16</ref>
==Rejecting But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―not just cold, but with a little life in it―that the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the Divine Force==, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease.
I know cases,... If you can add to that a movement of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor complete and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on trusting surrender to the Force and I apply itGrace, the more then I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: "am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear.If you know how to do it.You may try and yet not succeed.What's happening But you must know how to me!" As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes try again and again and they feel just a bit of itagain,until you do succeed... they resist... they become absolutely restless...That is, But if you do those three things at the whole system spends its same time rejecting and rejecting all that comes, well, there is no pain which can resist. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0508/november4-28july-19641956#p12p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
There's a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it to receive the vibration at the same time...instead But I've noticed that if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of using some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the energy same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in this waya movement of surrender,[to restore and repair] they[humans] immediately throw it out. They start stirring aboutsurrender of the pain, reactingthe disorder, workingand a call, speaking like an opening—it has a marvelous effect.The mantra acts in just the right way, in this way and in no other.And after a while everything is put back in order.They can't keep anything. So naturallyAnd simultaneously, of course, since the energy was not sent precise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to be wasted like that but for an inner useme. But quite apart from this, they feel absolutely flat, run downthe mantra acts directly upon the pain itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/julyjune-214-19581960#p2p4</ref>
==Unhealthy Curiosity==<center>~</center>
The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace.Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation..there It is in this state that the sense of an established harmony among the cells,..Grace acts. And it is the slightest thing that comes and disturbs Grace alone that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly;... But if out of curiosity,..cures.you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going The medicines only give a faith to happen?" (what the body calls "the desire to learn"),...that [then] you'll have something very unpleasant ...While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity ..That is all.bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0415/julypeace-and-20quiet-faith-and-1963surrender#p39p10</ref>
...when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to will." Then the body's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down...don't remain attached to your illness!..So they consent...They try—immediately, that light comes again...a few seconds and it's over. Then the cells remember: "But how come? I had a pain here..."—pop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, constantly.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p60~</refcenter>
=How ...the knowledge of the power to Cure Illness?=cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. One cuts the connection, then the brain does not register. That's what one does, what the doctors do with anaesthetics. They cut the connection of the nerves between the spot that's ill and the brain; so the brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum… there is one thing that one can try to do: it is not to concentrate on one's pain, to turn the attention away as much as possible, not think at all of one's pain, think as little as possible and above all not be concentrated on it, not to pay attention—"Oh, I'm in pain", then it becomes a little worse; "Oh, I'm in still greater pain", then it becomes still worse, like that, because one is concentrated on it; and this is the mistake one always makes: to think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of pain; then naturally it comes, it comes increased by the concentration of the attention given to it. That is why, when one is not well the best thing to do is to read or have something read, you see; it depends on the condition one is in. But if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/27-april-1955#p16</ref>
Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3~</refcenter>
Peace When one has a very bad toothache (I don't know if you have a toothache sometimes or not; a toothache hurts terribly because the nerve is quite, quite close to the brain, so it doesn't lose its intensity on the way, it is very direct and stillness are hurts very much), the great remedy for diseasebest way—in fact there's no other—the best way is to cut it: "It is good, you have done your work, you told me that something was wrong there, that's enough, don't move now.When we can bring peace in our cells" And one cuts, cuts it like this ("gesture"), cuts the connection, it doesn't transmit again. Naturally you must think of something else. If afterwards you start saying, we are cured"Do I still have the pain?..." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/peace-and11-quiet-faith-andmay-surrender1955#p26p44</ref>
‘‘Q:When one is caught in an illness, how should one pray to the Mother?’’<center>~</center>
A...phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the methods used today to cure nervous diseases. When someone cannot sleep, cannot be restful because he is too excited and nervous and his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitation, he is told to sit in front of an aquarium, for instance—an aquarium, that's very lovely, isn't it?—before an aquarium with pretty little fish in it, goldfish; just to sit there, settle down in an easy-chair and try not to think of anything (particularly not of his troubles) and look at the fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, coming and going, swimming, gliding, turning, meeting, crossing, chasing one another indefinitely, and also the water flowing slowly and the passing fish. After a while he lives the life of fishes:Cure mehe comes and goes, O Motherswims, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful!But the condition is that one must not think of one's troubles, simply watch the fish. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/cure-by-the12-divineaugust-grace1953#p10p18,p19</ref>
I don't want you to be ill and always I am with you to cure you—but you too must want to be cured. Do not torment yourself and always nestle in my arms so as to receive my love and force.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-september-1934#p2~</refcenter>
Ultimately I have known some truly extraordinary instances. If you can at the moment... Wait, take an example which is quite concrete: sunstroke. This upsets you considerably, it is one of the things which makes you most ill—a sunstroke upsets everything, it disturbs the inner functions, it generally causes a congestion in the head and very high fever. So, if this has happened, if it has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you, well, if you can just go into a quiet place, stretch yourself out flat, go out of your body (naturally, you must learn this; there are people who do this spontaneously, for others a long discipline is necessary), go out of your body, remain above in a way to put be able to see the body (you know the phenomenon, seeing one's body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of one's body and remaining just above it ), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the answer; and then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to push these forces into the body, like that, regularly, until you see the body receiving them (for, the first few moments they don't enter, because the body is quite tritelyupset by the illness, it is not receptive, it is curled up), you push them gently, gently, quietly, without nervousness, very peacefully, into the body. But you must not be disturbed by anyone. If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous. You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they can't disturb you. But you can concentrate slowly (this takes more or less time—ten minutes, half an hour, one hour, two hours—depends upon the seriousness of the disorder which has set in), slowly, from above, you concentrate the Force until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can cure only get back and you are cured. This has been done for a sunstroke, which is a fairly violent thing, and also for typhoid fever, and many other illnesses, as, for instance, for a liver which was suddenly upset somehow (not due to indigestion, but a liver which doesn't function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in the same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Consequently, when I say that if one masters the disease isnspiritual force and knows how to use it, there is no malady which cannot be cured… Of course, you will say you don't necessary know how to go out of the body, draw the individual's developmentForce, concentrate it, have all this mastery.... It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that if one is helped... In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1004/december31-13march-19691951#p14p23</ref>
If this present difficulty is useful ... (it's the body addressing the Lord)..for Your Work—so be it..It [The body] doesn't ask to be cured of the illness! It doesn't ask, it is ready; 'All right,' it says. 'As long as I can keep going, I will keep going. As long as I can last, I will last. But that's not what I'm asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity.' I believe this is what...gives it the necessary endurance. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/february-7-1961#p24~</refcenter>
You thought for months perhaps or even for years, you thought you were completely rid of a certain kind of illness which you suffered from, and you no longer paid any attention, and suddenly one day it returns as though it had never gone; it springs up again from the subconscient and unless one enters into this subconscient and changes things there, that is, unless one changes the subconscient into the conscient, it always happens like this...in order And the method is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes conscious, at that moment it must be able changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to cure an illness, enter the subconscient in one must find out its cause's full consciousness and work there, not its microbebut this is difficult.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0507/2211-julymay-19531955#p42p7</ref>
=== Auto Suggestions===The mind has a considerable power of formation and a direct action on the body, and usually one uses this power to make oneself ill.For as soon as the least thing goes wrong, the mind begins to shape and build all the catastrophes possible, to ask itself whether it could be this, whether it could be that, if it is going to be like that, and how it will all end..There are two ways Well, if instead of curing an illness spiritually. One...letting the mind do this disastrous work, one used the same capacity to make favourable formations—simply, for example, to give confidence to the person body, to tell it that it is receptive; the force just a passing disturbance and that it is nothing, and if it enters a real state of consciousness is put upon receptivity, the affected part disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and its pressure restores orderone can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0405/3123-marchdecember-19511953#p11p36</ref>
In other cases, if the body lacks receptivity... one sees the inner correspondence with the psychological state which has brought about the illness and acts on that. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p12~</refcenter>
When you are completely curedThese auto-suggestions [''of being restored to good health'']—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, its occult power to make thought, it will be an indication or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some inner progresscompleteness, the effects can be very remarkable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/willillness-toand-conquer-illnesshealth#p6p37</ref>
But when you have had ...an illness...the body remembers for a very long time. If you want to be completely cured, you must cure this memory in the body, this is absolutely indispensable...When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47~</refcenter>
...all you have to do is this (Of course it [''cancer''] can [''gesture of stepping backbe cured by Yoga'')], and there it isbut on condition of faith or openness or both.And it Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer—with luck, of course, as is shown by the root cure case of disorderthe woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the doctors lied and told her it had succeeded. It is anti-disorderResult, cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0331/octoberspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-30physical-1962problems#p62p2</ref>
...the cure for all physical disorders lies in the cells becoming convinced—conscious and convinced—that they are an expression of the Divine, or even that they are divine in their essence.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p6~</refcenter>
...most disorders One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs, aware of the body are connectedone that does not behave very well,telling it immediately what is to be done to set itself right.What is needed (I shall explain it to you later on) is to give them a lesson as one does to little children..If one can strike When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies (indeed it is then the occasion to say it) you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the way to behave, and at their psycho-physical rootthe same time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, one can cure even without knowing the pathological whole lung becomes the mentor of the matter heart and working through the symptoms is a possibility.teaches it how to work properly.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/doctors22-andjuly-medicines1953#p25p36</ref>
==Surrender==<center>~</center>
If a surrender It is particularly noticeable that all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to be madean attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, it's to Hima sour judgment. Nothing disturbs the functioning of the digestion more than that..."May Your Will be doneAnd it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind you become, critical," .dissatisfied with life and things and people.So you can't find any way out.And there is only one sees that there was cure: to deliberately drop this attitude, to absolutely no imperative need forbid yourself to be ill or for the disequilibrium have it and to occurimpose upon yourself, by constant self-control, a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness. Just try and you will see that you feel much better.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0903/june-15the-1968bhikkhu#p17p25</ref>
...that[The] disorganization is what prevents =What Are the cohesion necessary for the cells Obstacles to constitute an individual body, so then you know, "Ah (gesture of dissolution), it'll be the end." Then the cells aspire, there is a sort of central consciousness of the body which aspires intensely, with as complete a surrender as it can make: "Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will...." Then... first there is a peace, then a light, then Harmony—and the disorder has vanished. And once the disorder has vanished, there is instantly IN THE CELLS a sense of living eternity, of living for eternity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/november-15-1967#p32</ref>Cure?=
Human beings don't know how to keep energy.When something happens—an accident or an illness, for example—and they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent.If they happen to be receptive, they receive it.all ...disorders This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the body...suddenly (naturallydisorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the constant state is one source ofthe illness or accident.But instead of using the energy in this way, they immediately throw it out.. an intenseThey start stirring about, continuousreacting, conscious aspiration) ...disappearsworking, not only inside but around speaking ...without the least effort, They feel full of energy and they throw it startsall out! They can't keep anything...moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reasonSo naturally, without anything having changed in since the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts energy was not sent to what it was before: disorder, conflictbe wasted like that but for an inner use, chaosthey feel absolutely flat, things that graterun down. And then, as you arenit is universal. They don't conscious of know, they do not know how to make this movement—to turn within, to use the whyenergy (not to keep it, you donit doesn't have keep), to use it to repair the damage done to the key!...body and to go deeply within to find the only recourse is a blissful surrender.. reason for this accident or illness, and not a heavythere to change it by an aspiration, not an inert surrender: intenseinner transformation. Instead of that, right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, intensedoing this or that! ...That's the only thing.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0601/marchjuly-2021-19651958#p34p1,p2</ref>
...if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. ...And after a while everything is put back in order. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-4-1960#p4~</refcenter>
...working according but when you are able to somebody elsebe truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to will." Then the body's ideas makes or keeps you illcells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I do not see why am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—the whole drama (and that wasn't in sleep: I was completely awake, it was this morning), it should be so's "an illness." Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down, calm down, (laughing) don't remain attached to your illness! Calm down.As if you wished to be ill! Calm down.If ...doing things in what " So they consent—"consent," you consider not the best wayknow, like a child who has been scolded, "All right, very well, makes you nervousI'll try." They try—immediately, that light comes again: "You only have to will..ill" And once or twice, that for one thing or another (because the Disorder is something general: you may suffer at any spot, have a pity. It would be so much better disorder at any spot if you could leave accept a certain vibration), on THIS POINT, you consent—the next minute, it's over. Not the responsibility of next minute: a few seconds and it's over. Then the way of doing things to cells remember: "But how come? I had a pain here..."—pop! It all comes back. And the Mother and do cheerfully what you have to dowhole drama unfolds like that, constantly. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3105/illnessoctober-and14-health1964#p83p60</ref>
...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13~</refcenter>
==Changing ...there is the Attitude==sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: it's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly; and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isn't affected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (it's a mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going to happen?" (what the body calls "the desire to learn"), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure ("laughing") that you'll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the body's functioning. While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/july-20-1963#p39</ref>
These[the] maladies are a creation of the pressure of hostile forces;...The only way is to remain quiet, dissociate yourself and refuse to accept it or make much of it, allow the calm and strength that the Mother has been putting around you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous system...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been long subjected to these influences and, when they are evicted, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the right consciousness and right attitude with regard to these things, the hold they have will progressively disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p15</ref>=More on Illness=
The attitude There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the cells changes—not doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref><center>~</center>But, each man can make his own experiment. If one has a bad throat, this may be due to the disorder (!), fact that the disorder changes only because day before one was in a state of the cells' reaction, that's what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity—that's its jobdepression. It Or perhaps one is the way it's received by the cellsvery unhappy, dissatisfied, their reaction to itone finds everything very bad, that brings about and the next day one gets a cold in the changehead.... Everyone must make his own observations.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/04/31-march-30-19631951#p19p4</ref>
...all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment...it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind ...critical, dissatisfied with life...And there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude,...and to impose upon yourself,...a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness.<refcenter> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-bhikkhu#p25~</refcenter>
...there are many people now who...treat their illnesses by making conscious mental suggestions Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to the body which counteract if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the obscure secret suggestions cause of the sins of illness the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the mind of the subconscientrace is subjected to egoism. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3110/illnessaphorism-and199-health200#p40p1</ref>
==Using the Divine Force==<center>~</center>
To heal [illness] ...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the true force is obviously body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the best—provided the body sadhana; otherwise it is amenable. It has only a consciousness so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response"miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/doctorscure-by-andthe-divine-medicinesgrace#p1p13</ref>
...the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. ..you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately...And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60~</refcenter>
When something happens—an accident or an illnesspeople are ill and get well quickly,...they ask for help, a double or a triple dose are full of energy is sent. If gratitude; but never do they happen to be receptive, think of being grateful when they receive it. This energy are well; and yet that is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the disorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the illness or accident.much greater miracle! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0105/july23-21december-19581953#p1p52</ref>
...if it[illness] has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you,...go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body... and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, ...you begin to push these forces into the body...until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. …[if]you don't know how to go out of the body,... there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p23~</refcenter>
I used to do it simply like this: breathe ...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in very slowly to the count of 4body, then hold for 4 like this...lifting that He has BECOME the diaphragm and lowering body, yet all the head...closing everything while retaining his character of divine omniscience and exerting pressure... Then while I held omnipotence) well, the airwhole time it remained actively like that, I would make it circulate with was absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the force ...body, and with not only in the peace as well; and I would concentrate body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER. So if that is established in a permanent way, there CAN NO LONGER be illness it wherever is impossible. There can no longer be accidents, there can no longer be illness, there was a physical disorder can no longer be disorders, and everything should harmonize (probably in a pain or something wrong somewhereprogressive way). It's very effective. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0301/februaryjune-246-19621958#p36p10</ref>
...it[sciatica] cannot resist the Force quietly and persistently applied. Other illnesses can resist, but sciatica being entirely tamasic cannot. The application of Force does not yet, probably, come natural to you, so it brings a sense of struggle not of quiet domination, hence the restlessness etc. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p18</ref> Of course it [cancer] can [be cured by Yoga], but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p2~</refcenter>
==Medicine==...health or illness is a choice (to express it simply). A choice of every minute. For this body, at any rate, that's how it is.It means abdicating with regard to the general functioning of the physical substance, of the body, and having illnesses you get cured of or not, depending on... other laws than physical laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the true consciousness, or there is, yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which is unable to follow the movement of progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesn't want to. I am talking about cells and groups of cells. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p14,p15</ref>
Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort]that have to be used when something in the consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p6</ref>...if for some reason the body is not able to respond to the Force...then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to act through the consciousness but take the support of the treatment so as to act directly on the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p15~</refcenter>
Medicine Disease is necessary for our bodies needlessly prolonged and ends in disease only death oftener than is inevitable, because our bodies have learned the art mind of not getting well without medicinesthe patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. [Based on Aphorism<404386>Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines. Even so, one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in which the life is abandoned as hopeless by the doctors.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404386-405387-406388-407389#p1</ref>
Drugs often cure the body when they do not merely trouble or poison it, but only if their physical attack on the disease is supported by the force of the spirit; if that force can be made to work freely, drugs are superfluous.[Aphorism<407center>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p4</ref> ==Role of Supramental Descent== The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Truth in mind, vital and body. This would imply as a final result the disappearance of the unconsciousness of the body; it would no longer be subject to decay and disease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p15~</refcenter>
The absolute immunity can only come with You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that. Actually, you may turn the thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the supramental changeDivine Grace to help them to progress. …in They told themselves: it is a supramentalised body immunity good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the necessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground. So much the worse for them. But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is not all right; I am going to see what it is." You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness , for that would truly be automatic, inherent in its new nature. a very wicked Divine!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p52p2</ref>
The complete immunity from all illness for which our Yoga tries can only come by a total and permanent enlightenment of the below from above resulting in the removal of the psychological roots of ill health—it cannot be done otherwise.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p38</ref>
...take a supramental being having the supramental consciousness, if his body gets cancer, it will remain cancer... He may not feel anything, but only if he detaches himself from his body; whereas, for the transformation to be genuine, the body ALSO has to attain a harmony above—above all illnesses and accidents. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/july-10-1971#p12</ref>'''Content Curated by Radhika Pillai'''
On one side there is the claim that illness and the rest should be impossible, on the other a violent rejection of the only condition under which these things can become impossible...but that is one reason why it is necessary to transform the human and put something a little more luminous in its place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p35</ref>
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